[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A large collection of buttons and ephemera involving the Black Panther Party, political protests, and social movements.

14 pinback buttons, approx. 3 in. diameter and smaller, related to Black Panthers, the Peace and Freedom Party, civil rights, and other social issues and movements. -- 5 bumper stickers, 5 3/4 x 4 in. or smaller, featuring symbols and phrases related to the Black Panthers, and one sticker, 7 1/2 x 3 3/4 in., featuring a feminist symbol and phrase 'Sisterhood is Powerful." -- And an approx. 3 1/4 in. lg. wood carved fist with mother-of-pearl inlay, attached to a small chain. -- Together, 21 items representing political movements, mostly the Black Power Movement.

[With:] Newsweek. 5 May 1969. (Loss to lower right cover, wear to extremities.) Cover with printed photograph of armed Afro-American Society students at Cornell after seizing the student union in 1969. -- The Black Truth Magazine: A Magazine of Free Black Thought. N.p., n.d. (Heavy soiling and discoloration, wear to extremities.) Cover features portrait of Black comedian, Godfrey Cambridge, and Ugandan President, Idi Amin. -- Los Angeles Free Press. Vol. 7, No. 34. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Free Press, Inc., August 1970. (chipping, discoloration, soiling.) Front page headline reads "Angela Davis is Innocent...until proven guilty in a court of law!" -- Together, 3 periodicals related to or reporting on the Black Panthers and the Black Power Movement.

[Also with:] SEALE, Bobby (b. 1936). Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House, 1970. 8vo. (Toned.) Original brown cloth, dust jacket (chipping, some separation/loss repaired with transparent tape). Stated FIRST EDITION.

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[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A large collection of buttons and ephemera involving the Black Panther Party, political protests, and social movements.

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